Berlin Airlift

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Berlin Airlift

1948 - 1949

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What started the Berlin Airlift?

  • Stalin had moved into Berlin, Germany and started to build a wall between East and West Germany
  • With the shape that Germany was already in, people were starving and dying and nobody did anything.
  • Until France, the United States, and The UK did something about it.

What as the Berlin Airlift?

  • The US, UK and France were exporting food, water, and coal to Germany for people to live better with Germany the way it was.
  • More than 227,264 flights were lifted with more than 2,343,315 tons of food and coal.

Who was part of the Berlin Airlift

  • Captain Jack Bennett - First pilot to fly to Germany in this project.
  • Joseph (loseph) Stalin - Bad man (Some say he was worse than Hitler) who made the wall between East and West Germany
  • George C. Marshall - Created the Marshall plan which the Berlin Airlift was part of.

Mishaps during the Time.

  • The Soviet union (Stalin) prohibited the UK from going into West Germany (the non-soviet side)
  • Non soviets then starved because of the lack of food.
  • Soviets began to harass ground transporters between East and West Germany in 1948.
  • More than 600 pilots' lives were lost during that year.

Good things during this time


  • Easter day in April, 1949, more than 1,298 flights with more than 12,490 tons of food were flown out
  • The head of the Soviets leader fled the Komandatura and everyone stopped traffic for him to do so.
  • May, 12, 1949, Soviets stopped everything and conceded defeat.